The “Help” app and the tutorial.
Moto Droid (855)

home -> settings -> About phone -> System Tutorial

I’d say they left most, but mistakenly not ALL of that on the floor. They need to go diggin in their dustbins and get it together!

I’d say the biggest thing they missed was full Exchange functionality with ActiveSync. Not supporting security provisions for ActiveSync has cost them huge in corporate environments.

How exactly does search replace a bookmark? I mean i wanna get to the site I’m going to with a SINGLE touch of the finger, not go to search and type in a keyword..? i dont get it.

Did everyone forget about flash? Wasn’t it promised last november when andy rubin showed it running on a g1?

Gestures for filtering
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX9nt8Cpdqg Romain Guy talks about it starting at 8:15

Once you’ve use hero’s browser with pinch and zoom, plus auto reformatting text its hard to go back using anything less. Seems HTC had no problem including the feature. I’d like to see apple execs telling an Asia company not to put that stuff in their products. The news reports would be interesting “Apple executives last seen running out of a building chased by men with samurai swords”.

If that’s their “most epic blunder” then they did one hell of a job.

The Hero has multi-touch on Android 1.5

Voice dialing initiated on my bluetooth headset with voice response to questions. Having to use the screen to initiate voice dialing and then use the screen to select which number when there are multiple matches kind of defeats the purpose of “hands-free” bluetooth headset.

Things missed in 2.0:

- Being able to apply Themes

- Better Market… what I’d like to see are some filters/sorting (e.g. sort by rating/number of downloads total/number last week, etc)

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